While Central Virginia maintains a strong postion at #1, Lighthouse & NOAH slipped farther back on disappointing weekend games. The big surge of Noblesville & OKC Legion became the big news, this week. They move all the way to the #2 & #3 spots.Christ Prep & King's Academy rounded out the top 10. Baton Rouge CHEF, Flint Warriors also moved into the first column on the strength of big successes.The NHFCS Rankings has removed teams who have not kept their game results posted to Maxpreps in recent weeks.

How can you drop the Georgia force after blowing out their rivals east Atlanta 43-6 just because of a bye week? When they beat kings academy this week then will they get some love in the poles? or will they have to wait till the last regular season game against Johnson's ferry. Most underrated team on the entire pole I believe and I don't understand why they arnt getting any love. When NOAH is 0-3 they should crack the top 10. When the force win this week if they don't crack the top 5 at least I will be very disappointed. I believe the Georgia force is the best team in the country and I cant wait to see them take home that national championship in November. I want to see them play the previous champions down there!!

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Bill Ratliff

9/22/2014 09:47:12 am

Billy Bob. max preps rankings can be confusing at best. I do know that your rankings are strongly influenced by how successful, or unsuccessful your previous opponents are. You really want the teams that you beat to continue winning. Good luck with your season. We played your team a long time ago down in Florida and you had top class program then. Good to see the tradition continuing on.

Bill Ratliff
Central Virginia Disciples

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Diana McDaniel

9/24/2014 03:53:06 pm

How is it that Skipstone Christian School is ranked 33 and are 0 -4 and North Georgia is ranked 37 and we are 1-3..........? I still think you should rank the schools separate from the home school teams

Bill & Diane,
The Freeman Scoring system that Maxpreps commissioned for prep football uses a massive computer formula. It's not a "poll". No one makes any subjective judgments or shows any "love".
Ned Freeman wrote about it in our previous blog post: http://www.nhfcs.org/nhfcs-blog/previous/24 . Each team receives a computer Power Rating. Then a spreadsheet ranks the 16,000 teams in the order of power ratings.
Mr. Ratliff is correct regarding games which are excluded from the ratings.
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Regarding "schools", Any credible & actionable information can be submitted to the NHFCS for research on the teams included. The Director of the NHFA personally confirmed to the NHFCS last fall, regarding the 2013 homeschool status of the Skipstone team. We are awaiting the October 1st deadline to submit final 2014 rosters, so we can ascertain the eligibility for 2014.
About half of the 110 current homeschool teams in our database are in some manner affiliated with an umbrella school ( they may meet for part of 1 or 2 days per week, but students do the bulk of their academic studies in the home ) or co-op academic entity. We rely upon our established criteria for determining who receives the bulk of their education in the home setting.
The NHFCS certifies rosters, not institutional policies, corporate charters, or league affiliations.
We ultimately will not let another conference, association, agency, or government body determine the working definitions of the terms we use for setting eligibility.
We wish you all the best success and seek to promote the accomplishments of all the home educated athletes.

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